Filed under: Windows, Open Source
Ghostzilla: A tiny, instant web browser in any document
by Jordan Running Jun 12th 2006
I'm not at all sold on the utlility of Ghostzilla, but its novelty in undeniable: It's a tiny app for Windows that lets you instantly create a stripped-down web browser inside any application. Ghostzilla's intended purpose seems to be secret browsing: Ghostzilla embeds itself in any part of an application, but when you move your mouse away from it, it instantly disappears. It also supports a number of "hiding levels," which let you tweak how attention-grabbing images are displayed, e.g. optionally making images fade to a pal grey when the mouse is not over them. Ghostzilla is free and open source, so if you have something to hide, check out,
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
